Join Sierra Club's Executive Director - Michael Brune to Circle the White House on November 6

Dear Friends,

I’m writing to ask you to join me this Sunday, November 6, at the White House in Washington, D.C., to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Thousands of Sierra Club members and concerned citizens from all over the nation are coming to circle the White House, coming to send a clear and direct message to President Obama that tar sands oil is not in the national interest and that he must deny the presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.

We need your help to make this action a success.

Tar sands oil is some of the dirtiest, most destructive oil in the world. This pipeline is the frontline in the fight to stop climate change. Tar sands oil means massive greenhouse gas pollution, destruction of the Northern boreal forests – the lungs of North America – and oil spills that will threaten drinking water for millions and the livelihoods of farmers and ranchers across the U.S. heartland.

The Sierra Club and our many allies on all sides of the political spectrum have been working for several years to turn this presidential decision into a national movement – and we’ve succeeded. Time is now growing short, but we know that the White House has heard our concern. Now it’s time to drive our message home. Now the President needs to hear from YOU.

I’ll be in Washington on November 6 to circle the White House and make my voice count. I need your help to make this action a success.

Please make this event a priority and help us spread the word of this important event to your networks. I will be hosting a conference call with Bill McKibben on Tuesday, October 25 to tell you more about this event and campaign. Call (866) 501-6174 — 244 0879 1892#. I hope you can join us. RSVP for the call here.

Please urge your colleagues, friends, and families to join me on November 6. The Sierra Club will be hosting a series of five phone banks to promote the event. We need volunteers to help make this happen and ensure the greatest turnout possible. For details, please contact Jessica Eckdish.

I truly believe that November 6 will be an historic moment in our fight to save the planet.

Michael Brune
Sierra Club Executive Director

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Here are the details:

WHO: People who want to save the planet from the destruction of Big Oil’s tar sands plans
WHAT: Come to Washington, D.C., to tell President Obama that tar sands oil will not be tolerated
WHEN: Sunday, November 6 at 2 pm Eastern
WHERE: Lafayette Park, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C.






Please sign up so that we can keep you notified of updates to this important event:

Yes, I'll be there.

No, I can't make it, but tell me how I can get involved without attending in person.

Questions: Contact Jessica Eckdish.

P.S. You may also be interested in joining the Say No to Tar Sands Team in the Activist Network.

Josh Fox: Why I Got Arrested - Message for Tim DeChistopher

Jamie September 2, 2011 at 4:35 pm

It’s late and I am pretty wiped out, but before I have to resume shooting Gasland 2 and running around the country tomorrow I want to set down a few words about why I chose to be arrested at the Tar Sands Action sit in at the White House today.First of all, the mining tar sands for oil is incredibly destructive.  It can and must be stopped. I felt that standing against it, shoulder to shoulder with climate justice activists and fracktivists was a moral imperative.






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Tar Sands - Obama is back, can you call now?

Hey- This is breaking news. President Obama just got back from his vacation and was greeted by over 140 people sitting in at the White House this morning to protest the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This is by far the biggest day of the Tar Sands Action, and the biggest sit-in at the White House in memory. The group includes Dr. James Hansen, NASA's most important climate scientist, and Phil Radford, the Executive Director of Greenpeace, plus dozens of faith leaders from every possible religious tradition. They're still out there now, sitting in, and I think we should let our President know that they're not alone. If we reach out to him now, he'll know that there is a movement behind them, and that will make us much harder to ignore. Can you call the White House and tell President Obama to stand with us and oppose the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline? The White House: 202-456-1111 Then, report your call by clicking here: http://www.tarsandsaction.org/report-call/ Thanks for everything you're doing to make this action a success.

Dozens More Arrested in Oil Pipeline Protest

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Source: CBSNews.com

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A U.S. Park Police officer handcuffs and arrests a protester over a proposed pipeline to bring tar sands oil to the U.S. from Canada, in front of the White House in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

(CBS/AP)

WASHINGTON - Arrests are beginning anew outside the White House as police remove dozens of protesters who are hoping to convince President Barack Obama to block TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline.

Fifty protesters remain in jail after being arrested outside the White House on Saturday, the opening day of a two-week civil disobedience campaign. They're expected to be released Monday night.

By noon today, police began arresting more demonstrators, including 68-year-old Patricia Warwick of Toronto.

A 65-year-old woman from Massachusetts who's celebrating her birthday was also arrested.

Protest organizers say a total of 46 will be arrested and will join their colleagues in jail by day's end.

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Background on proposed Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline

Dozens were arrested outside the White House on Saturday after staging a sit-in to protest the proposed $7 billion pipeline that would boost U.S. dependence on Canadian oil sands.

Thousands of opponents of the pipeline plan to get arrested, in protests over the next two weeks that they hope will help persuade the Obama administration to kill the project.

The State Department is set to issue a final environmental impact report this month on the Keystone XL pipeline project that would bring oil sands petroleum from Alberta to Texas refineries. The department hopes to make a final decision on the TransCanada Corp line by the end of the year.

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